The Very Short Guide to LaTeX

This is the 22 January 2013 revision of the Guide. It is designed
for printing on A4 paper, double-sided, and folding once to A5.

This revision corrects some minor typographical inconsistencies
and rephrases some descriptions for greater clarity. The
preformatted version uses commercial typefaces: if you use CM or
something else you may have to rearrange the text a little, as
space is very tight.

From the source comments:

This is the Very Short Guide to LaTeX, a 4pp folder designed
as an aide-mémoire for people who
have just done a course in LaTeX and need something by them on
their desk the next day to refresh their memories. It is
not intended as a substitute for full documentation.

Production notes

An earlier (Jan 2008) version was typeset on two A4 landscape
pages ready to print, but this restricted the ways people wanted
to print it, so this version is set as four normal A5 pages,
leaving the imposition up to your printer driver.

Adobe Acrobat 9, for example, can print the PDF two-sided,
two-up, landscape on A4 using the Booklet Printing option,
and a ready-imposed PDF generated this way is included below. A
similar effect can be achieved by preprocessing the PS output
with the command

The weird value of 30cm appears to be due to a bug in
pstops (and in psbook: it ought to
have been possible to use psbook and
psnup for this, but that method does not allow for
offsetting).

The page margins are set to 12mm, because many desktop inkjet
printers cannot print the bottom 12mm of a sheet; it was felt
best to equalise this all round, at the small expense of making
the printable area slightly smaller.

If you have been maintaining a mirror or other copy of this
document, please update it with this version and delete the
previous files.